India

The weighing of the Shah Jahan for his 42nd lunar birthday. Detail.                    

Painting, illumination, gouache on paper 1635 approximately  15 x 18 cm      

From the “Padshahnama”. Two times a year, the equivalent of the Emperor’s weight was distributed in gold, silver and other goods to the dignitaries, noblemen and merchants

The weighing of the Shah Jahan for his 42nd lunar birthday                   

Painting, illumination, gouache on paper 1635 approximately 31.8 x 21.2 cm

U.K., Windsor Castle, Royal Library

From the “Padshahnama”. Two times a year, the equivalent of the Emperor’s weight was distributed in gold, silver and other goods to the dignitaries, noblemen and merchants

1. Wife of a Rajah.

2. Professional dancer.

3. Favorite of the Grand Mogol.

4. Young woman of Burma                                                                  

Print, colored  1840 approximately   9.6 x 15 cm

Amirault (drawing)       

At ball given for His Majesty the king of Cambodia  Bal donné à S. M. le roi de Cambodge.

Print, woodcut  1865    approximately   12.3 x 18 cm   

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

A ball given in Saigon, at the Governmanet Palace        

Vietnam, Indochina  ballroom  royalty  L’Illustration. Paris, 1865?, p. 60.

Philippoteaux (drawing); Saunier (engraving)    

Wife of a Raja. Slave.

Print, lithograph, color 1820  approximately   120.5 x 12.5 cm    

Dance of nautch girls before the Prince of Wales at the native entertainment, Calcutta

 

Print     1876    30 x 22.6 cm   

Performers in the palace. The sacred water rite and confirmation of the title of H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Siam, Bangkok

 

Print     1887    6.7 x 11 cm    

Hatherell, W. (drawing); Cray, J. A. (sketch)   

 

A nautch girl dancing before the Amir of Afghanistan    

 

Print 1893        30.5 x 21.8 cm

Procession ofteh Pera-hara at Kandy Procession of the Pera-hara at Kandy  

 

Print, wood   1892  13 x 14.5 cm   

 

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis 

 

Prince Albert Victor and Prince George on board the “Bacchante”

Girls dancing and playing music in front of a raja and his ladies celebrating spring in a garden pavillion                                                                                                    

Painting, manuscript illustration  1770 approximately      39.7 x 26.4 cm

From UdaipurIndia

Barathier, Mathieu (Narbonne, France 1784-1867)     

 

Nautch dancing in front of a prince

 

Painting, pastel on paper stuck on canvas  1849 approximately 63 x 48 cm

 

France, Narbonne, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire   Unsigned, undated